snapcraft crashes with useless message on bad YAML
Metadata
Current evaluation
Bad-YAML handling had already been fixed before Sergiusens closed Launchpad #1608032 in August 2020; no resolving PR or commit was linked.
Resolution: closed resolved
Reason: Sergiusens closed the report on 2020-08-24, stating that the bad-YAML crash had already been fixed for some time. No specific resolving PR or commit was cited.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
No scores available.
Issue body
I was trying to make snap of my old qt based 2048 application which is serving in software center in 14.04 etc , so am sure nothing is wrong with it .
Snapcraft gave output which is useless and exit after completing few build steps.
link to my snapcraft file is - http://paste.ubuntu.com/21499411/
when i issue snapcraft command it download stage packages and at end show this message- "expected string or bytes-like object" and gets exit.
as the message itself is irrivalent i am unable to understant what should i do. so is ran snapcraft --debug which gave me this output - http://paste.ubuntu.com/21499579/
am sure snapcraft should output some good information about what goes wrong and where .
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Bad-YAML handling had already been fixed before Sergiusens closed Launchpad #1608032 in August 2020; no resolving PR or commit was linked. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | A maintainer closed the report in 2020, stating the bad-YAML crash had already been fixed for some time; no resolving PR or commit was linked. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed stale | Closed after prolonged inactivity without a fix; the bad-YAML crash had no resolving PR or commit. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without resolution due to inactivity. An unhelpful crash message occurred when snapcraft processes invalid YAML. No fix, PR, or follow-up comments were provided, indicating the report was abandoned. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Abandoned. Snapcraft crashed with an unhelpful error on invalid YAML. No fix or follow-up was provided. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without resolution. The report of vague YAML parsing errors and poor crash messages in snapcraft was abandoned, with no fixes implemented or follow-up comments provided. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Abandoned due to inactivity after over four years. The report described a vague error message during YAML parsing but received no comments or patches. The issue remains unresolved. |
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Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1792049 Uncaught yaml.ParserError | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | YAML parser tracebacks were fixed by merged snapcore/snapcraft PR #2263 (commit 057f66649), which catches broader YAML exceptions and reports invalid YAML. |